A prime candidate for a budget cut
A county government mole tells me various county officials’ sights have been set on a budget line item entitled: “Non-Profit: Grants & Contingency.” In some circles, this is
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About those ALLEGED drastic education spending cuts …
Some rather duplicitous candidates and granola-munching activists are bemoaning an alleged lack of funding for education needs in Moore County. The problem with their harrangue is —
Continue readingAround the world with Renee (and the lobbyists)
Government records show that lobbyists paid for congresswoman Renee Ellmers, her husband, and her chief of staff to visit Turkey and Israel in August and October of 2011. From 8/13/11
Continue readingWhat happens in Vegas doesn’t always stay in Vegas
I’ve continued my perusal of Renee Ellmers’s campaign finance report. Check it out HERE (specifically p.94). It appears that her reelection campaign fund picked up the tab
Continue readingGuilty conscience wreaking havoc in The Pilot’s newsroom?
I guess South Carolina congressman Joe Wilson finally got to the fiction-peddlers in The Pilot’s newsroom. Here we are — one week before the vote — and we finally get
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Southern Pines, Pinehurst mull economic development
It’s being reported that Pinehurst, Southern Pines, and Aberdeen are each being asked to pony up $2,500 for the opportunity to have a movie or two shot within their borders.
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Thom’s Team LUVs lobbyists
The other –um, high-heeled — shoe has dropped. It’s been learned that state House Speaker Thom Tillis has discovered ANOTHER of his employees having a romantic relationship with a registered
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Ellmers enjoys another FIVE-DIAMOND getaway thanks to her campaign fund (stocked mostly with lobbyist dinero)
While our state and nation’s economies tank — while the unemployment rolls grow — while families are struggling to pay their bills — congresswoman Renee Ellmers has enjoyed yet
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Pants on Fire: What are you cutting, Renee?
South Carolina congressman Joe Wilson is talking to Renee Ellmers again. In today’s Raleigh News & Observer, congresswoman Ellmers speaks up in support of her boss John
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Forget the whales and the dolphins. Save the Speaker! (Save Thom !!!)
The state’s economy is in the tank. Our debt is growing by the minute. Unemployment ranks are growing. And what is the Raleigh political class doing? Plotting to save poor
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